Of the three episodes that Tom Holland directed, I like this one the most. It may not have the great, insane gore of "Lover come Hack to Me", or whatever the hell "King of the Road" was supposed to be about, but this darkly weird little thriller scores points for sheer weird edginess. It's not all that great of a tale, but it's very enjoyable and I appreciate the off-beat tone and slight surreality quality it has that went along well the dingy and desolate setting of the isolated farm. It's kind of a strange, tense, and eerily disturbing tale, and quite a violently nasty in one scene. I love the cleverly ambiguous twist that is the core of the story, It serves to make the episode just about a good one. That, and the strong performances of Arquette and Blommaert. The thing I most enjoy is the mystery regarding the triangle of Mary Jo, George and Louisa. And just who or what is the forth side of the triangle, anyway? The scarecrow? The possible machinations of Mary Jo? It's an interesting plot point, whether or not an apparently helpless little farm slave is manipulating a horrible man into being killed by his horrible wife, or if it's just plain luck. I think it's a bit of both, like she might be doing it without even realizing, maybe! I really wish they had gone for a supernatural twist and had the scarecrow really come to life, that sure would have been a lot more fun. The first time I saw this I was very annoyed and disappointed that it never happens, because as a great fan of all things monsters, I really needed the dang scarecrow to be alive! Well they certainly went in a whole other direction than that... I thought Susan Blommaert and Chelsie Ross were both good in their small roles, she was effective and pretty scary as a violent and threatening tyrant to poor little Mary Jo. Ross was good too as a thoroughly unpleasant, gross-looking letch of a redneck. I'm not that big a fan of Patricia Arquette but I liked her in this, here, it suited her weird way of acting playing a kooky, brain-damaged kidnapped girl on a psycho farm, who liked to sing little nursery rhymes and talk in an adoring voice about her "man." She wasn't backward, just a little "teched". Being cracked brutally over the head with a bottle will do that to a gal.. I love the funny note on which the story ends in the final scene where a joyous Mary Jo sings "chicken pot-pie, and I don't care" and skipping merrily away into the creepy rotting rows of corn. I like the few episodes that feature cruel hillbilly's. This one almost buys the farm, buy not quite. Not a great one but twisted and different enough to be good. X